Category Archives: Azure

Make use of the Azure Recovery Services Vault Backup to restore your Domain Controller

Active Directory, Azure, Backup, Entra ID, Recovery Services Vault February 27, 2024 Leave a comment

It’s been quite a while since I blogged, and since I started doing podcasts, this has been reduced a lot.This time I thought to blog something about the cool stuff in the Entra ID feature I explored in the demo and wanted to share about the same.

Today in this blog, let’s take a look at restoring a domain controller running on the Azure virtual machine from the Recovery Services vault.
Recovery Services Vault is a feature provided by Microsoft Entra that offers centralized management and protection of data, applications, and workloads.
One of the services offered by Recovery Services Vault is it’s backup.

We also talked about the site recovery in the previous video, and if you want to have more information on it, I highly recommend taking a look at it.
In the backup part, it allows us to securely backup and recovery our applications in the event of accidental deletion , data corruption, or site failures.

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Deep dive into Azure site Recovery showing the step-by-step how to set it up for Azure VMs

Azure, Recovery Services Vault September 8, 2023 Leave a comment

Here is the 2nd series on the Azure Site Recovery ! Deep dive into Azure site Recovery showing the step-by-step how to set it up for Azure VMs. This can provide some ideas for your disaster recovery setup in your Environment !

Regards

Sathish Veerapandian

Getting Started with Log Analytics Workspace

Azure, Log Analytics Workspace, Monitoring Tools September 8, 2023 Leave a comment

This video gives you an overview of the log analytics workspace and how to get started with it.

Hope you enjoyed the video !

Regards

Sathish

Discover Azure Site Recovery for Seamless Disaster Recovery Part 1

Azure, Recovery Services Vault September 8, 2023 Leave a comment

Azure Site Recovery is a powerful service provided by Microsoft Azure, designed to protect your critical workloads and ensure business continuity in the face of unexpected disruptions or disasters. This video gives more information on the subject.

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Sathish Veerapandian

Utilizing Azure Boards in Microsoft Teams Channel for better productivity

Azure, Azure Boards, Microsoft Teams May 26, 2023 Leave a comment

This video explains how effectively we can utilize Azure Boards within the Microsoft Teams Channel.

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Sathish Veerapandian

3 reasons why you must move to cloud storage

Azure, Storage April 18, 2023 1 Comment

Even if you are not that interested in technology, you still must have heard about cloud storage. Services like One Drive,Dropbox, iCloud, and Google Drive are usually part of the default applications available on smartphones and tablets.

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Azure Automation Runbooks using a web hook request

Automation, Azure March 15, 2023 Leave a comment

How to launch Azure Automation Runbooks using a webhook requestsing a single http request , a webhook enables an external service to launch a specific runbook in Azure. Take a look at this video on getting started with this approach.

Azure AD – End user FIDO Security key sign-in and experience

Azure, Endpoint Security, Passwordless, Security February 10, 2023 1 Comment

Since I’ve been doing vlogs in my Youtube Channel for the past 10 months, it’s been a while since I last blogged. Today, I made the decision to blog about the procedures for using the Office 365 Apps’ password-free FIDO secure sign-in.

Today we will take a look at how to setup the Passwordless sign-in via FIDO Key from the end user perspective.

In this example we are going to use Fietian FIDO2 certified key in this demo. You can take a look at their products from their website

You can also take a look at the available FIDO key security providers and Fietian is one of them in the Microsoft Docs website

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Azure Desired state configuration how to get started

Automation, Azure January 31, 2023 Leave a comment

Use Azure Automation state configuration report only endpoint if you’re not ready to manage the virtual machines. This functionality enables you to view reporting details in Azure Automation and set push configurations through DSC.

Hope you enjoyed this video !!

Sathish Veerapandian

Extending passwordless authentication to OnPremise Applications via Azure

Azure, Passwordless, Security January 31, 2023 Leave a comment

This video explains about how to utilize FIDO key in your environment for passwordless authentication and steps to extend this passwordless functionality to onpremise environment by using Azure AD We have used Yubico FIDO key for this Demo.

Hope you enjoyed this video !!

Sathish Veerapandian